Stunning photos of homemade cars

Stunning photos of homemade cars

Some car lovers modify their vehicles, some give them new colour and some give them a totally different shape. But there are some who built their cars from scratch with their own hands.

Let's take a look at some amazing homemade cars.

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Image: A friend of Wang Jian sits in a hand-made replica of a Lamborghini Reventon in Suqian, Jiangsu province, China. Wang, a young farmer who worked at a garage for more than a decade, built the replica of a Lamborghini Reventon with a second-hand Nissan and Santana. The self-made roadster cost Wang around 60,000 RMB ($9,450) and can reach a maximum speed of 160mph.Photographs: Xihao/Reuters

Stunning photos of homemade cars

A man looks at Zhang Jindou's self-made racing car on the outskirts of Shenyang, Liaoning province, China. Zhang, a 53-year-old farmer, made the racing car with the help of his son who is a mechanic. It is equipped with a rear-mounted motorcycle engine and can achieve 60-80 km per hour.

Stunning photos of homemade cars

Zhao Xiuguo drives a homemade vehicle he claims is modelled after a Formula One car in Tangshan, Hebei Province, China. Zhao and his elder brother Zhao Xiushun built the car from scrap metal and said that they wanted to design and build China's first Formula One race car.

The car is 10.2 feet in length and 4.1 feet in width and can reach a maximum speed of 60km per hour.

Stunning photos of homemade cars

Stunning photos of homemade cars

Passers-by look at a solar-powered electric car homemade by 54-year-old amateur inventor Chen Shungui and can reach a speed of up to 60kph, on a street in Jingjiang, Jiangsu province, China.

The car can drive 40km by solar power during a sunny day, and its charging system can provide electricity to drive more than 240km when fully charged. Chen took eight years and invested 500,000 yuan ($74,943) to build two solar-powered electric cars. The characters on the car read 'solar electric car'.